Robust Automatic Speech Recognition

Robust Automatic Speech Recognition: A Bridge to Practical Applications establishes a solid foundation for automatic speech recognition that is robust against acoustic environmental distortion.

It provides a thorough overview of classical and modern noise-and reverberation robust techniques that have been developed over the past thirty years, with an emphasis on practical methods that have been proven to be successful and which are likely to be further developed for future applications.

The strengths and weaknesses of robustness-enhancing speech recognition techniques are carefully analyzed.

The book covers noise-robust techniques designed for acoustic models which are based on both Gaussian mixture models and deep neural networks.

In addition, a guide to selecting the best methods for practical applications is provided.

The reader will: